Ilia Delio (Author of The Unbearable Wholeness of Being) | Goodreads

Ilia Delio (Author of The Unbearable Wholeness of Being) | Goodreads

Ilia Delio

Born

Newark, New Jersey, The United States

Genre

Historical Theology, Biology, Pharmacology

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Ilia Delio, OSF is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, D.C. and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics and neuroscience and the importance of these for theology. She was born in Newark, New Jersey and is the youngest of four children.


Fordham University
Ph.D., Historical Theology
M.A. Historical Theology

Rutgers University Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences
Ph. D., Pharmacology

Seton Hall University
M.S., Biology

DeSales University
B.S., Biology

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ILIA DELIO’S BOOKS

Average rating: 4.27 · 1,191 ratings · 165 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love by  Ilia Delio  4.30 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe by  Ilia Delio  4.31 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Franciscan Prayer by  Ilia Delio  4.34 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth by  Ilia Delio,   Pamela Wood,   Keith Douglass Warner  3.69 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness by  Ilia Delio  4.36 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Christ in Evolution by  Ilia Delio  4.40 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Clare of Assisi: A Heart Full of Love by  Ilia Delio  4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian by  Ilia Delio  4.35 avg rating — 62 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis by  Ilia Delio  4.20 avg rating — 60 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	From Teilhard to Omega: Co-Creating an Unfinished Universe by  Ilia Delio  4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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QUOTES BY ILIA DELIO

“Life in God should be a daring adventure of love—a continuous journey of putting aside our securities to enter more profoundly into the uncharted depths of God. Too often, however, we settle for mediocrity. We follow the rules and practices of prayer but we are unwilling or, for various reasons, unable to give ourselves totally to God. To settle on the plain of mediocrity is really to settle for something less than God that leaves the heart restless and unfulfilled. A story from the desert fathers reminds us that giving oneself wholly to God can make a difference: Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, “Abba, as far as I can I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and meditate, I live in peace and as far as I can, I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?” Then the old man stood up and stretched his hands towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, “If you will, you can become all flame.”15”
― Ilia Delio, Franciscan Prayer

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“Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian’s vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something of poetic inspiration. Our faith ought to be capable of filling our hearts with a wonder and a wisdom which see beyond the surface of things and events, and grasp something of the inner and “sacred” meaning of the cosmos which, in all its movements and all its aspects, sings the praises of its Creator and Redeemer.2”
― Ilia Delio, From Teilhard to Omega: Co-creating an Unfinished Universe

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“Spiritual desire is the experience of God’s presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness.”
― Ilia Delio, Franciscan Prayer